Meditations For Sobriety: Addiction Recovery Book: Words To Inspire & Stay Strong

By C.W. V. Straaten

A compassionate & inspiring book with daily reads for sobriety. Make your day easier and honestly better with a short meditational text to encourage, strengthen and comfort your recovery journey. The book is created for all people who're struggling with addiction and want a simple, uplifting tool for daily support. Every page consist of one insightful message or quote to help you stay sober every day. If you want a powerful book to help you start the day peacefully & strong, Meditations For Sobriety is a perfect buy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Alexander Publishing House
• Release date: Mar 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215713280

Book preview

Introduction

What follows is a collection of short meditational texts to help you with your journey of recovery. You can use this book as a daily habit or whenever the urge to act out kicks in. Beside addiction and recovery the meditations also include quotes about other areas of life. All created and carefully chosen to help bring back harmony into your life.

May the sorrow and hardship in your life become less and less. And may your spark of joy, your truest essence emerge more and more.

Wishing you peace, strength and happiness,

C.W. V. Straaten

Buenos Aires 2022

Meditations Part 1

You have inherent value and purpose in life.

Don’t let the disturbance of the past interfere with your present and future.

Today is a new day, as are all days.

Commit to truth, growth and connections.

See your life changing day by day.

It’s your only life here, make it worth it.

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Realize this once and for all, this is your perception looking through the lens of addiction.

This is not your only lens available.

This is not the only reality you can perceive.

You are now on this crossroad.

And addiction lures you in with all its fake promises — but you’ve realized today, that life is short, that it is time to wake up.

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;

Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus

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One of the most important things when it comes to recovery from addiction is to no longer define yourself (solely) as an addict. The thought, or even worse, the belief I am an addict, is creating your life experience. We follow our I am statements blindly. And thus you become stuck in the rhythm of that statement.

So be very careful with what you follow your I am statements...

If you are an addict, that’s what you will return to over and over and over again. The best thing you can do from now is to never ever again refer to yourself as an addict.

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"A man who goes to the bar, or a man who goes to the church or a temple, they’re seeking the same thing...

They’re trying to enhance their life."

Sadhguru

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"At the center of your being you have the answer;

you know who you are

and you know what you want."

Lao Tzu

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Adding more similar actions to this downward spiral results in more of the same outcome. More stress, more loneliness, more frustration, more emotional pain. Most importantly with each day added to this addiction habit, you are moving away